I'm a poetry pleb, please help me to be patrician. Suggest

WB Yeats is king
also Wallace Stevens
some of Conrad Aiken

and i adore John Clare, not sure how God-Tier he is considered but he's one of my faves

>>8526983

Keats and Shelley too

honestly just buy some anthologies and figure out who you like that way

>>8526890
Buy an anthology and look further into those who stand out to you. I do the same thing with philosophical movements I'm interested in.

Just got the Modern Library anthology of the American Transcendentalist movement. I'm pumped.

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>>8526890
Sounds like you need to get BLAKED.

>>8526890
Coleridge

>>8526890
Duino Elegies by Rilke

>>8516954
See what you like and go from there

>>8527078
this, op. william blake was the greatest poet of all time. also check out alan moore's jerusalem and infinite jest by dfw.

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/fr/daylewis.html

try this.

>>8526890
The sticky.

>>8526890
Edgar Allen Poe. Zbigniew Herbert. Dickinson suffers from the problem of being a woman but she has some good stuff. Blake Blake Blake Blake Blake.